“In hindsight, I’m sure I’m meant to substitute the DBM terminology of Dispel for Purge, but I just totally forgot about Purge. DBM is overrated.”

I have a couple of level 80 characters (Priest, Rogue and Shaman). I leveled them all. Didn’t even use Refer a Friend. Reading a tooltip for Purge at level 50, 1 year ago (when I was that level) and then becoming confused in the heat of battle does not mean I bought my characters on eBay.

I know this is hard to believe but I actually leveled all my charactes to 80 and you know what there are 2 whole talent trees of abilities that I haven’t even learned yet on my main, the druid let alone along know how to use /gasp. Does this make me a terrible player? I say no. Did this mean I bought my character? Um, definitely no.

I also know my sister, the one who wrote this article in a moment of frustration. She is also the one who sits their patiently and explains to the brand new 80s in Oculus how to use the different drake abilities and marks herself and shows them where to fly. She’s the one that will only queue as DPS if an item she wants is classified more as a caster item then a healer one, so she is being fair to the other DPS in the party. Yep we definitely don’t need people like this in PUGs…..

And seriously…. who would honestly write a blog about a toon they bought? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard!

I would offer 2 alternative solutions while posting comments on blogs:
1. If you don’t like what you read simply leave, we seriously don’t mind
2. Don’t make offensive comments about people purchasing characters, there is no purpose behind it except to be mean, which only shows to the world your an asshat.

I’m disappointed that you have multiple level 80 characters and don’t know this, Xata. It leaves me with the impression that you don’t read what spells do as you train them or that you purchased your characters online. Refusing to grab water is silly. Ultimately you sound like one of the players that makes the dungeon finder difficult.

I would offer an alternative two things to know about the dungeon finder:
-Don’t be lazy.
-Don’t be in a rush.

Virtually every run was as smooth as it could possibly get: “Doesn’t Get To Eleven”? Check. “Don’t Look Up”? Check. Not to mention a handful of speed-related achievements from other dungeons. I swear, not a single non-premade group I picked on my own server could run instances so quickly. People rushed things like madmen, and I barely kept up with them – not healing-wise, but movement-wise.

I admit that it probably should be attributed to early rush: every raider wants to grab a handful of Emblems of Triumph and grab those few pieces of gear he had been missing. Every tank I’ve had the honor to heal was ridiculously over-geared for lvl 80 heroics.

The only exception to the above, and a dungeon where not a single pug I’ve been to could complete, is Halls of Reflection. But it is a step above the heroics we’ve got used to.

I agree with the previous comment about the quality of PUGs declining over the next few weeks. Once players get the loot/badges they need from the newer instances you’ll see a sharp decrease in quality and quantity of tanks and healers.

It’s unfortunate that something that obviously took a lot of time and thought to develop is going to become last week’s mutton so quickly.

None of the groups I’ve been in have amazed me, although the Halls of Lightning run from the screen capture has definitely been the best so far. Have I wanted recruit anyone for my guild? Nope.

While the rewards for non-max dungeons aren’t great (Got a pair of SP gloves out of a Helpful Satchel after a Ramps run), groups seem to get together pretty quickly, at least in Outlands. Even as DPS I never waited more than 10 minutes. So far it has taken me to Ramps twice… and Slave Pens once, which surprisingly was little trouble.

It is also a great way to finish up those group quests sitting around.